Carl \u2018Rocky\u2019 Mason grew up in a village in the north of England. He left school at sixteen and, after completing his training aged just seventeen, he served with the commando units of Royal Marines – the most respected fighting force in the world \u2013 for the next ten years.<\/p>\n
Not long after receiving an exemplary discharge, Rocky acted as military advisor to Mearsk Shipping during the First Gulf War and served on many ships in the war zone. At the end of the conflict he took part in a variety of privately run missions in Africa and the Far East and started to work as a close protection, surveillance and undercover operative in the UK.<\/p>\n
After a mission on Africa\u2019s Ivory Coast went wrong, Rocky decided to spend some time in England with his newly born son. He appeared in many films as a military stuntman before starting a specialist company providing security for a number of film and television companies.<\/p>\n
Rocky was drawn back out into a life on the open water as the threat of piracy emerged and he was asked negotiate with pirates and then lead a team of former marines to re-take a ship that had been hijacked by Pirates in the South China Seas. Since then Rocky has worked to protect ships in the most dangerous, pirate infested waters in the world. He has had to fight for his life on more than one occasion and has been on a ship overrun by Somali pirates armed with rocket launchers and AK47s who have tried to kill him and his colleagues \u2013 all Rocky and his two colleagues had for defence was an iron bar and a flare gun.<\/p>\n
Despite the dangers, Rocky still currently works guarding ships from pirates in the most dangerous waters in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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